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Pump up the jamPump it upWhile your feet are stompin’And the jam is pumpin’Look ahead: the crowd is jumpin’

Pump it up a little moreGet the party goin’ on the dance floorSee? ‘Cuz that’s where the party’s atAnd you’ll find out if you do that

Six weeks of pre-mission prep have gone down, and now, it’s time FOR THE MAIN EVENT.

YEAH!

The main event, formerly known as Mission Impossible, has been officially named. If you follow me on Instagram, you may or may not recall a post from New Year’s Day where I made this explicit statement:

i’m gonna get so effing strong & take down my 2018 goals like the Undertaker.

This is an absolutely perfect statement regarding how I feel about my mission with Lifelong Endurance to beat my personal best in the marathon by TWENTY minutes.

The Undertaker really speaks to people. I’ve gotten so many awesome suggestions for what to call this endeavor and I could not pick..so I was gonna go with Operation: Undertaker. But the Undertaker is a little grim..and scary….

THEN a suggestion rolled in on Instagram. The name of one of my favourite songs as a little kid in the 90’s, and still one of my favourite pump-up songs to this day. PUMP UP THE JAM! I remember my dad actually had the Technotronic CD LOLOLOL

It’s so perfect and I’m totally sold! I want to run fast just thinking about Pump up the Jam!!!!! And so, we have it! More fun than the Undertaker, and more up-beat.

Why? because I want it more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my whole life and I will do WHATEVER it takes to make this happen.

How? stay tuned. Sixteen weeks of what may be too much information, is coming at you

Thank you so much to everyone who gave me SO MANY awesome, fun, creative and badass suggestions. That was fun! The PRO Compression socks go to Jane, thanks for the perfect idea! (she picked the neon candy socks, good choice)

And now, I will leave you with the dance I’ll be doing for a warm-up from now until..ever.

In January I confessed my big, scary marathon goal for 2018! If you want the details, HERE they are, but the quick and dirty is that I want to work my f#ckin ass off and see what happens if I train with a goal to hack twenty minutes off my marathon time. 03:51:18….to 03:31:18. Yeah, that also happens to be a Boston Marathon qualifying time (BQ) for my age/gender. I keep calling it Mission Impossible..

AHHHHHH!!! But it IS scientifically possible! Is it realistic? Maybe…Is it likely? Don’t know, yet!

I am going to do everything under the sun to succeed, and Lifelong Endurance is my guide, as always. We will work together through a sixteen-week preparation, starting Monday, April 9th and concluding at Jack & Jill’s Marathon on Sunday, July 29th! There will be races in between, some tune-ups, some pacing practice. There will be full disclosure on how it’s going throughout. It’s going to be fun. Follow along!

Since returning from the Mesa-Phx Marathon in February, I’ve been training my brain, and working on other general disciplinary stuff like getting up earlier and going to bed earlier. I’ve been working on my time management, fitting in lots of cross-training, strength workouts, REST, and improving my diet, on top of running five days a week.

This is happening. What’s the worst that could happen? A personal best? Strong AF? Yeah, I’m not scared of that! So I need your help, because continuing to refer to my goal as Mission Impossible is not going to work for me anymore. It’s like the opposite of believing in myself. It doesn’t have a good enough ring to it, either!

Create a name for my undertaking!

A few tips..

should be pretty short

funny is good

swear words are okay

doesn’t have to include “BQ”

I will pick the winner during the first week of April! Winner will be rewarded with one pair of their choice of over-the-calf PROCompression socks from the Marathon collection! Any pair, as long as it’s available in your size! Let me know your new name for Mission Impossible by contacting me here 🙂